About The Author

is first tuesday's in-house Broker Consultant. Fernando has over 20 years' experience in California real estate, including single family residence sales, mortgage loan origination, investment properties and commercial leasing. Fernando is the lead writer in charge of the Forming Real Estate Syndicates and Creating Carryback Financing books.

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[M]ost people join CAR in order to obtain the forms, not for the other services. And if there were any viable choices for agents, CAR would immediately suffer as much as a 40% to 50% loss in membership. […] CAR owns the “for profit” company that produces their software, with top officers in CAR sitting in top management spots in ZipLogix. This is the living, breathing definition of a conflict of interest. […] On their website they parade their forms software as “free” when cost of their forms software for non-members as a percentage of their actual membership cost speaks for itself.